F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dec. 23, 2010
Fitzgerald: What people are ashamed of
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aug. 20, 2010
Fitzgerald Repackaged
Penguin Classics will publish new editions of six major works by F. Scott Fitzgerald in stunning new designs. Gorgeous. More here. (Via.)
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Jul. 19, 2010
Fitzgerald on creating characters
“Start out with an individual and you find that you have created a type — start out with a type and you find that you have created nothing.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun. 30, 2010
Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg
In *The Disenchanted,* Budd Schulberg wrote the final act in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragedy.
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Jun. 8, 2010
You never completely relax again
Budd Schulberg in his novel *The Disenchanted,* parroting Fitzgerald, says being a writer in awful curse.
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Nov. 10, 2009
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Swimming under water”
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, from an undated letter to his daughter Scottie, reprinted in The Crack-Up (1945)
Oct. 30, 2009
Financial Lives of the Poets
The publication of This Side of Paradise when he was 23 immediately put Fitzgerald’s income in the top 2 percent of American taxpayers. Thereafter, for most of his working life, he earned about $24,000 a year, which put him in the top 1 percent of those filing returns. Today, a taxpayer would have to earn [...]
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